got live rock with extra's

about a month ago i when to sw store in the next town over.looking for some corals/fish and so on.well while i was there i talked to the owner for a min and she was telling me about the live rock they sell 9.99 lbs i was thinking that its abit high but i got a peace 4 lbs. it has some good coralline cover purple and a realy dark red and some other stuff i dont think its coralline, its orange but it looks like coralline just orange.
had 5 or 6 sw clams and some kind of micro algae ive never seen,its short tan in color looks like fan grows in clumps,and a dark red micro algae that grows bubble leaves that are dark red.
well anyway i wanted to remove the tan fan looking algae so i pulled it off the rock, behind the fan I found a hole i didnt think anything of it, then last night i was looking my tank over and i seen some thing moving in the hole so i pulled up a set and waited to see what it was and it didnt take long. its a baby mantis srimp about a 1" long.
so the Q is was the rock worth $40?

 

If you like all you got then yes.

 

Not the answer i was looking for..

 

It's the only valid answer tho.

Value is entirely subjective.

$9.99/lb is more than I would pay for live rock, but without pictures it's hard to say what quality it is. Do you know where it came from?

Given the clams and extra hitchhikers, and if you're happy with what you got, and you're not loosing sleep over the price, and you're eating and keeping a roof over your head, etc, etc, then yeah... I guess you got a good deal.

Could you have done better? Probably. Is that worth worrying about? See above...

-Doug

 

there was two little white with black striped brit star and two little white 7 legged star fish on it too....what does a mantis cost?

 

depends on the species/coloring. Its worth getting out of your reef tank for sure!!!!! I think you got a cool rock that no one else will ever get, so being priceless you got a great deal ;-)

 

im not to worried about him right now, he's been in there for a month and i just now seen him, good at not being seen i guess, plus he a'nt even a inch long.

 

For every one you see there's THOUSANDS crawling in your walls.

 

My lfs charges $4.99 a pound for Fiji live rock with Coralline growing on it. Most of it has typical items: star fish, sponges, bubble algae, etc.. A Mantis shrimp can range from $4.00 - $100.00 depending on species. If you do not want him in your tank I would remove now, they are hard as heck to catch and have the potential to kill most things in your tank as they grow. I do not think the price was that bad for what you got. I do think LR is subjective on price, if you get an unusual or center piece for your tank it is hard to argue cost.

Good luck!

 

i found on another site to use soda water so you dont hurts corals and such.. plus the shrimp comes flying out i just used it my self today. i have him in a 20 gal tank for now